media center

I am running Windows 7 on a new computer with no TV tuner. I am unable to see Internet TV or Netflix in Windows Media Center. When I try the automatic download (Download Now) option, I get an error message that the Guide cannot be downloaded. After looking at these message boards, I have...

We didn't think much of Haier's mention in Microsoft's Windows 7 Media Center embedded press release, but on the show floor today we ran across this HDTV which was actually a full-blown Media Center including tuners and a harddrive. The details were very skimpy beyond that, with no mention of...

Hi I have Windows Vista and when I click colored hotkeys keys windows media center popsup. I would like instead for winamp to pop up. My laptop is now Asus N50VN series. My last laptops motherboard got fried twice

Is there any way that I can get my WMP visualizations to work in Media Center? I have the SoundSpectrum collection (G-Force, Aeon et cetra) and love 'em. On my XP MCE they all worked fine, but in Windows 7 Media Center, I seem to be just stuck with the default ones. I am running the 64x version...

On opening windows media centre, it now freezes and I lose the mouse operation. The screensaver still works anmd I can reboot via ctr alt del. This has just started happening. I have tried system restor, removing and re-installing media centre and have now re-installed Win 7 in upgrade mode, all...

I've installed and re-installed the XBOX 360 Media Center Extender to many times to count. Each time I install it the thing fails - absolutely will not connect with my Xbox. The _only_ way I can get it to work is to disable the Windows Firewall. Probably not the ideal thing to do. Is there a...

Folks, Few weeks back, the mobo on my HP xw8200 blew up. Nothing else was wrong, but when ordering the "new" mobo for it, I also got more correct RAM and two 3.6GHz Xeon CPUs. Got the guts back into the pc and fired it up. I almost cried when I saw the Windows 7 logo appear. AWESOME!!! Now...

Hi Guys, Im new to the forum, but was wondering if someone would be able to assist me. I bought a hp dv6 laptop a couple of days ago running windows7 home premium. Unfortunately i am unable to instal reporting services 2005 on anything below the proffessional edition. My question is, if i...

:(I am unable to display picture in the Media Center. Yes, they are .jpgi I have seen where in XP they have revised the registry. Does this need to be done in Windows 7? I am using Infraview and understand this might have created the problem.

I've got 1 windows 7 media center box (32 bit), my laptop (win 7 64 bit), my girlfriends laptop (Win 7 64 bit), and an xbox 360. The media center box used to be XP I upgraded to windows 7 and all was well. I was able to connect to and stream movies from the media center to the xbox. I was...

30 sec advance issue I know this is question has been asked before but I'm still unable to fix the problem. I'm unable to fix the 30 sec advance and 7 sec skip backwards function in wmc7. For me the problem arose when win7 went from beta 7077 to rc 7100. I have the white wmc remote with...

QUESTION: I’m using the “slide show” feature in Windows 7, but I can’t make it display the photos in the same order they are stored in a file folder. Instead, the photos are apparently displayed in random order. What can I do? – Vic Erdmann, Minneapolis ANSWER: Normally, the Windows Media...

Hello everyone I am new to this forum and I want to share some issues I encounter during my Windows 7 64bit experience on my ASUS laptop. When I try to start Windows Media Center it always crashes however I can hear its sound but it displays a message saying Windows Media Center stopped working...

Hello my fiance recently bought my a Xbox 360 Slim. I setup the windows media center extender and it works fine. But my issue is with my Computer. My proccessor is maxxing out whenever the process for the Media Center Network is running. The only solution i have found is to end the process...

Hi All, Setup as follows: Thomson Speedtouch 585 on 192.168.1.254 PC w/ Windows 7 wired on .72 Laptop w/ Windows 7 wireless on .66 Xbox 360 wired on .64 iPhone wireless on .68 Internet works fine on all devices. Have got the 360 set up using the PC as Media Center which is working fine and...

I constantly have a problem using WMC Live TV. Upon an initial startup the sound is fine however after I exit WMC and attempt a restart I get no sound. I can restore the Live TV sound only through rebooting the machine. This sound problem only occurs in Live TV - all other WMC & computer...

I am having an issue with a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate. I have videos that will not work in Windows Media Center but will play fine in Windows Media Player. I have downloaded codecs, reinstalled drivers, etc but I am still getting one of 2 errors: When I try to play a movie directly...

Our media pc keeps bring up a window with the following message - "Windows Media Player Library Make media files show up in Windows Media Player Library" It offers three options - advanced, next, and cancel. Clicking next has it detect for errors, then just sit there and keep detecting, not...

I purchased a remote control from Adesso just yesterday. The model name is ARC-1100 if you'd like to Google it. I connected it and everything seemed to be fine. I was able to use it to navigate Media Center as intended. However I went through the Setup TV Signal options and everything was fine...

Hello, I'm trying to build a media center using windows 7 Ent. I have Remote Desktop Enabled, and i can connect, however, when i log on from my laptop, it takes the system user to a login panel and doesn't show me the desktop. Is there a way to allow the desktop user, and remote user to share a...